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How are people with heat pumps faring? (lemmy.ca)

submitted 10 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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With the cold weather I was hoping to hear of some experiences people have had with their heat pumps.

What kind of backup heat do you have? Are you using it? Is there some temperature where you just stop using the heat pump, or are you even consciously thinking about it?

Thanks!

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (2 children)

You should be talking to your electricity company about reliability and future-proofing if that's something that worries you about heat pumps.

As much as it sucks, if you're an area where reliability is a problem, getting a propane-powered generator is the way to go... Even better if you can get the advantage of using the waste heat from the genny into your home (a.k.a. 'co-gen').

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

My concern is the entire grid - in Alberta at least.

Whenever it's really cold or really hot out our grid pretty much maxes out and if that happens to coincide with a calm day, I think we're in trouble.

It's cold out - lets all watch the price of electricity hit $999/MWh this evening and think about whether we'd be comfortable if a couple thousand Albertans had to suddenly turn on their resistive heating: http://ets.aeso.ca/

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago

That would mean needing to talk to the Alberta government, and you might as well talk to spilled paint, for all the good it'll do.